King Yellow Man "The Original King of the Dancehall"

King Yellow Man "The Original King of the Dancehall" - Yellow Man the real king of the Dancehall! Yellowman born Winston Foster on January 15, 1957 in Kingston, Jamaica is said to be the original King of Dancehall and Dancehall Music. He is also called King Yellowman.

He grew up in a Catholic home called Alpha Boys School in Kingston,
Jamaica. Even though he was Deejaying from a tender age he did not
gained attention until in the late 1970s when he won the very popular
"Tastee Talent Contest".

Most Jamaican dancehall artists started
out performing on local sound systems and Yellowman was no different.
Although he was very popular in Jamaica, it was not until 1981 when he
signed to CBS Records Label an American company that his career took off.

His
first album release was in 1982 entitled Mister Yellowman followed by
Zungguzungguguzungguzeng in 1983 earning instant success. His sexually
explicit lyrics in popular songs such as "Them a Mad Over Me" boasted of
his sexual prowess, and this earned him a lot of criticism.

Dancehall artiste such as Shabba Ranks has blamed the Slackness in the dancehall music on King Yellow.

He
has had a substantial influence on the world of hip hop. He is widely
credited for leading the way for the succession of reggae artists that
were embraced by the growing hip-hop community in America during the
1980s.

By the mid-1990s however, Yellowman started to released
socially-conscious material, this help to him rising to international
fame along with singers such as Buju Banton. Yellowman became the
island's most popular deejay despite being albino. During the early
1980s, Yellowman had over 40 singles and produced up to five albums per
year.

In 1986, the original King of The Dancehall struggled with
cancer of the jaw and was told that he had as little as 3 weeks to only 6
months to live, but surgery saved his life. After surgery he took a
break but came back with "Blue Berry" in 1994.

He continues to
perform internationally with his Sagittarius Band, and has toured
through places such as Nigeria where he is massively popular, Spain,
Peru, Sweden, Italy, Germany, England, France, Kenya and the United States.

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